1st Edition
Barbed Wire Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons
By Patrick Brantlinger
Copyright 2018
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Modern Fencing
2. Urban Spaces
3. Caging People: From Schools to Prisons
4. Thinking Inside the Box
5. Corporations as Greed Machines
6. Globalization and Empire
7. Manufacturing Disposable People
8. The Real Tragedy of the Commons
9. What is to be Done?
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University, USA.
